Marvellous Maths

St John's Family Maths Night 

On Wednesday,14 September, St John's will be hosting a Family Maths Night. This will be an opportunity to visit classrooms and learn maths the way our students are learning today. We will share the 'Launch, Explore, Summarise' Pedagogy that we are using and give you and your children an opportunity to complete some challenging maths tasks in number and algebra, measurement, geometry and statistics and data. Put the date in your calendar and we look forward to seeing you there.

Australian Mathematics Challenge

During the past fortnight, 32 students have participated in the Australian Mathematics Challenge. It was great to see them work through challenging problems and extend their thinking.Good luck to everyone who particpated.

Mathletics Stats

During the Week I was sent an email form the Mathletics team with some amazing stats about the great work students are doing online:

In the first half of the school year, St John’s students have: 

• Completed 631,090 curriculum questions
• Earned an astounding 64,632 fluency points
• Improved 19% on average
• And spent a whopping 43,286 minutes learning with Mathletics! 

Keep up the GREAT work! 

Classroom News in Mathematics

Last week I had the pleasure of visiting the Year 3/4s who were focusing on Symmetry. They were using the Launch phase of the EMC ³ planning framework to see which letters and words have symmetry. It was fantastic to hear the various discussions they had, challenging their thinking and proving their predictions. 

Mr Rhett Masters

Mathematics Leader rmasters@sjmitcham.catholic.edu.au